Picture sponsors wanted // Our incredibly successful sponsorship project was set up in collaboration with the museum’s supporting association in 2009. By making private donations of every size, sponsors enable urgent restorations of the collection’s most important works.

Since the project began, a huge civic effort has allowed twenty-six paintings, five sculptures, and eleven graphic works along with numerous magnificent frames to be restored. Between 2009 and 2016, roughly €270,000 in donations has been deployed. And not only individuals have shown how important the Kunsthalle is to them: Businesses and foundations such as Südzucker, the Wilhelm Müller-Stiftung, the Heinrich Vetter-Stiftung, and the Bangert-Stiftung have all offered financial support. The picture sponsors are one part of the ambitious, long-running restoration project at the Kunsthalle, which will culminate in the new presentation of the collection at the opening of the new building at the end of 2017.